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Cabin Pressure
I raced through the BBC radio show Cabin Pressure and am now 2/3 finished with my second listen. (This, I have discovered, is what mp3 players are for: listening to radio drama in bed at night.) It's always funny and sometimes bittersweet in just the right way; I think the best comedy always has a measure of sorrow in it.
If, like me until a few days ago, you are tragically unacquainted with the show, do give it a try. Its BBC website is here and the first two series are available to download via this link at what I think is a very reasonable rate. And did I mention the fannish associations? Benedict Cumberbatch is one of the stars, and in series 3 Anthony Head has a recurring guest role. You can listen to a free S1 episode on the BBC site, by the way.
/promotion
So, as is my wont, I looked for fanfic.
Oh, dear.
There is a weird dearth of humorous fic, considering the show's a comedy. Instead, there are a billion schmoopy woobified romance fics, the majority being m/m slash, but with crossover het andMary Sues original female characters making a strong running. Worse yet, there's an inexplicable fanon trope that Martin has an eating disorder. This turns up in fic after fic by various authors, and there's no canon justification for it whatsoever. I'm not sure if people are importing this from Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes, who might plausibly have an eating disorder, or if they're extrapolating from (and thus completely missing the point of) Martin's S3 speech about how he's so poor he's living on toast and the occasional baked potato "for a treat." (The point, of course, being that he would like to be eating other, nicer, more plentiful food. And certainly he shows no disinclination for the cheese tray during flights. This is not a man with an eating disorder, but a man who can't afford to buy food.)
Humorous genfic is not normally what I want, but oddly enough I wish there was some for Cabin Pressure. Or slash that's actually plausible; although I'm not averse to the idea of Martin/Douglas, Douglas's extensive heterosexual history makes this a pairing that needs to be earned within each fic. Actually the pairing I'd really like to see is Martin/the actor who Carolyn hires to play him in the recorded welcome message. They did make a not!date, after all!
Also, I want Sherlock crossovers that make sense. Martin is not Sherlock's visual double; the word that comes up over and over to describe him is "little," so we have to assume he doesn't look like Benedict Cumberbatch. But they do have near-identical voices and there've got to be a few plots in that.
Oh dear god I have just thought of Martin/Mycroft as a pairing, with Mycroft working out his semi-incestuous feelings for Sherlock via sex with Martin, and I think I have BROKEN MY OWN BRAIN.
If, like me until a few days ago, you are tragically unacquainted with the show, do give it a try. Its BBC website is here and the first two series are available to download via this link at what I think is a very reasonable rate. And did I mention the fannish associations? Benedict Cumberbatch is one of the stars, and in series 3 Anthony Head has a recurring guest role. You can listen to a free S1 episode on the BBC site, by the way.
/promotion
So, as is my wont, I looked for fanfic.
Oh, dear.
There is a weird dearth of humorous fic, considering the show's a comedy. Instead, there are a billion schmoopy woobified romance fics, the majority being m/m slash, but with crossover het and
Humorous genfic is not normally what I want, but oddly enough I wish there was some for Cabin Pressure. Or slash that's actually plausible; although I'm not averse to the idea of Martin/Douglas, Douglas's extensive heterosexual history makes this a pairing that needs to be earned within each fic. Actually the pairing I'd really like to see is Martin/the actor who Carolyn hires to play him in the recorded welcome message. They did make a not!date, after all!
Also, I want Sherlock crossovers that make sense. Martin is not Sherlock's visual double; the word that comes up over and over to describe him is "little," so we have to assume he doesn't look like Benedict Cumberbatch. But they do have near-identical voices and there've got to be a few plots in that.
Oh dear god I have just thought of Martin/Mycroft as a pairing, with Mycroft working out his semi-incestuous feelings for Sherlock via sex with Martin, and I think I have BROKEN MY OWN BRAIN.
Re: Those Cumberbatch Fans
Re: Those Cumberbatch Fans